Friday, 17 May 2013

QOTD: Nawabzada and the Muslim League

While still on the subject, Zafar recalls — though in a footnote — an
incident narrated to him by Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan’s private
secretary. The Nawabzada had been a Leaguer before forming his own
party. In December 1986 a delegation of assorted Leaguers came to the
Nawabzada and requested him to head a joint Muslim League as his was the
only name on which consensus could be achieved.“The problem with the League is that it has too many leaders and too
few political workers,” the Nawabzada told the delegation before quoting
a Seraiki proverb according to which the most difficult task in the
world is to keep five kilograms of live frogs on a weighing scale. He
hit the last nail in the coffin by saying that he would give the frogs a
chance, but keeping Muslim League leadership united was even trickier.